kimsdad
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Tim, Mark, & I hit an old farmsite and camping/picnic area today. We found what was left of a really cool stone lined well.
After digging a couple of plain Jane Jeffersons, I found a cool old relic and wondered if Tim would be interested in seeing it. Should I show him or shouldn't I?
Well I decided to carry it over to where he was hunting and show it to him. I set my coil down with my phones off and had a little show and tell. Then I put the phones on and picked up the detector. When I did, I heard a real nice dime sound, and it was deep enough to be a for certain silver. Dug it, probe it, and up came a Barber quarter in nice shape! 
Re-checked the hole and found a bent rusty nail, the culprit in my opinion that made the quarter sound like a dime.
After a while with nothing, I managed to find a nickel signal that wasn't a Jefferson or a shotgun brass and popped out a 1917 buff. I don't hate finding these anymore now that I use the easier "Watercolor method" to clean them.
Then into the woods it was. I stopped for a minute and saw a taped-closed tin box under a fallen tree branch. For a minute I thought it was a geocache. I picked it up and found the side and bottom rusted away and the box was empty. I did get a large overload signal nearby, but figured it was more junk. Just more proof that if you follow me when I'm swinging, you'll eventually dig the cache that I missed.
Well, on the way out, Tim swung over the same area and found several more intact containers, all taped shut, but none of these were empty.
I was lagging behind, but my phone rang and it was Tim, telling me what he found and to get over there so I could open them - testimony to the great guy he is (either that or he didn't want to be the one blown up when they exploded).
My first thought was cremated remains of someone's pets - but what about the pot?
I opened the first one which was the pot. A little nervous after cutting the tape, I knocked the lid aside and saw a muddy shoelace wrapped around a bundle of stems of some kind and a plastic measuring cup. Huh?
We took turns opening the rest of them. The second one contained two twin packs of Pop Tarts and some stomach pills. The third had two licorice Twizzler packs and four Snack Pack pudding cups, along with a spoon and two small forks. The last one had a large size package of strawberry Twizzlers and a Dum Dum sucker. I think it also had a few stomach pills in it. Sweet spill for sure! Also nearby was an old 2 liter pop bottle full of water.
Now the hard part of all this was trying to keep Tim from digging in to all those goodies, feral hunter that he is. Me Lowbatts - me eat!
So it was an interesting day to say the least. We had some fun and I got a nice quarter out of the deal.
HH!!!
After digging a couple of plain Jane Jeffersons, I found a cool old relic and wondered if Tim would be interested in seeing it. Should I show him or shouldn't I?
Well I decided to carry it over to where he was hunting and show it to him. I set my coil down with my phones off and had a little show and tell. Then I put the phones on and picked up the detector. When I did, I heard a real nice dime sound, and it was deep enough to be a for certain silver. Dug it, probe it, and up came a Barber quarter in nice shape! Re-checked the hole and found a bent rusty nail, the culprit in my opinion that made the quarter sound like a dime.
After a while with nothing, I managed to find a nickel signal that wasn't a Jefferson or a shotgun brass and popped out a 1917 buff. I don't hate finding these anymore now that I use the easier "Watercolor method" to clean them.
Then into the woods it was. I stopped for a minute and saw a taped-closed tin box under a fallen tree branch. For a minute I thought it was a geocache. I picked it up and found the side and bottom rusted away and the box was empty. I did get a large overload signal nearby, but figured it was more junk. Just more proof that if you follow me when I'm swinging, you'll eventually dig the cache that I missed.
Well, on the way out, Tim swung over the same area and found several more intact containers, all taped shut, but none of these were empty.
I was lagging behind, but my phone rang and it was Tim, telling me what he found and to get over there so I could open them - testimony to the great guy he is (either that or he didn't want to be the one blown up when they exploded).
My first thought was cremated remains of someone's pets - but what about the pot?
I opened the first one which was the pot. A little nervous after cutting the tape, I knocked the lid aside and saw a muddy shoelace wrapped around a bundle of stems of some kind and a plastic measuring cup. Huh? We took turns opening the rest of them. The second one contained two twin packs of Pop Tarts and some stomach pills. The third had two licorice Twizzler packs and four Snack Pack pudding cups, along with a spoon and two small forks. The last one had a large size package of strawberry Twizzlers and a Dum Dum sucker. I think it also had a few stomach pills in it. Sweet spill for sure! Also nearby was an old 2 liter pop bottle full of water.
Now the hard part of all this was trying to keep Tim from digging in to all those goodies, feral hunter that he is. Me Lowbatts - me eat!
So it was an interesting day to say the least. We had some fun and I got a nice quarter out of the deal.
HH!!!
I know, you're just keeping up with all the other awesome finds by the Chicago group. You guys are tearing it up there. The Barber dime was sweet too, to bad it was damaged. Keep at it!!
